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The risks of water insecurity.

The risks of water insecurity. Wednesday 19 th October 2011. Objectives: - To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. - To produce an annotated map explaining water conflict in the middle east.

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The risks of water insecurity.

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  1. The risks of water insecurity. Wednesday 19th October 2011 Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. - To produce an annotated map explaining water conflict in the middle east.

  2. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. Starter What has happened to the Aral Sea as shown in these satellite images taken in 1977, 1989 & 2006? What are the possible reasons for this?

  3. 2. The risks of water insecurity What are the potential implications of an increasingly ‘water insecure’ world? Water supply problems Increasing water shortages may be more important than energy shortages- because there is no alternative! Water conflicts Where demand exceeds supply and no effective management operates, then there will be conflicts between the various players involved Water geopolitics The conflicts between nation states, despite the international agreement called the Helsinki Rules designed to create more equitable use of water extending across boundaries Water transfers Of this precious resource by either diverting the actual river, or using canals . Long carried out at a small scale but increasingly over larger distances, and even transboundary

  4. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. 1] Teacher led notes on the following: • the world water gap; • water supply problems; • the Aral Seacrisis, and • water conflicts, eg. the middle east. 2] Student Activities focussed on: ‘The Global Water Crisis’ and ‘Water Insecurity’

  5. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. Some alarming water statistics:

  6. LINKS: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC5UIEx83fo • Aral Sea - Environmental catastrophe • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUyddi_5j8&NR=1&feature=fvwp • Aral Sea – Bringing water back • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7479760.stm • Aral Sea – World Bank project. • http://visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_Int/aralsea/aral_map.html • Aral Sea – info and map

  7. CASE STUDY: The Aral Sea The Aral Sea crisis has involved several stakeholders. Produce a spider diagram summarising the involvement of each in this environmental catastrophe.

  8. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis.

  9. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis.

  10. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. • Read pg. 62 – 65 in the A2 Book and put the title, ‘The Global Water Crisis.’ Complete the following activities:- • What is the Millenium Development Goal for tackling access to safe drinking water? • People’s lives can be transformed by improving levels of sanitation. Make a copy of the flow diagram: ‘The spiral of well-being.’ • Using the Central African republic (CAR) as an example explain how political instability can lead to water insecurity. • Using examples demonstrate the link between wealth and access to safe drinking water & sanitation. • Give TWO examples of where poor people may not be able to access safe drinking water even though there is water available. • Explain how salinisation can destroy the very land that irrigation was meant to improve.

  11. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. • Read pg. 66 – 67 in the A2 Book and put the title, ‘Water Insecurity.’ Complete the following activities:- • What is the Water Co-operation Facility? • What percentage of the world’s countries share water basins with at least one other neighbour? • Under what conditions can conflict arise between neighbouring countries over access to a shared water source. • Give THREE examples of ‘potential water wars’. • Put the sub-title, ‘Water – the Global Key Players’ and take brief notes on the three most important: WTO, TNC’s & the UN.

  12. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis. Extension Activity Define the following terms: evaporation, overland flow (surface runoff), watershed, percolation, precipitation, throughflow, transpiration, water table, groundwater flow, infiltration, permeability, porosity.

  13. Assignment [Due in: 2nd November 2011]

  14. Objectives:- To understand how the need for water can lead to tensions and conflict. - To investigate the Aral Sea crisis.

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